A new system of agriculture : Being a complete body of husbandry and gardening ... Wherein are interspersed many curious observations ... As also particular account of the famous silphium of the antients / By John Laurence.

  • John Laurence
Date:
1726
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Credit: A new system of agriculture : Being a complete body of husbandry and gardening ... Wherein are interspersed many curious observations ... As also particular account of the famous silphium of the antients / By John Laurence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A (//s&rup NEW SYSTEM AGRICULTURE. BEING A COMPLETE BODY O F Husbandry and Gardening In all the Parts of them, Viz. Husbandry in the FIELD, and its feveral Improvements. Of Foreft and Timber Trees, Great7 (Of the Fruit-Garden, and Small y with Ever-Greens and> < Of the Kitchen-Garden. Flow’ring Shrubs, &c. j (Of the Flower-Garden. In FIVE BOOKS. CONTAINING All the bed: and lateft, as well as many new Improvements, ufeful to the Husbandman, Grazier, Planter, Gardener and Florijl. Wherein are interfperfed Many curious Obfervations on Vegetation ; on theDifeafes of Trees, and the general Annoyances to Vegetables, and their probable Cures. As alfo a Particular Account of the famous SILPHIUM of the Antients. By JOHN LAURENCE, M.A. - U Redtor of BiJhops-fVeremouth in the Bifhopnck of Durham, and Prebendary of the Church of Sarum. Omnium autem rerum ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil eft Agricultural melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine, mhil libero dignius. Cicero de Offic. Lib. ii. Cap. 41. Nec vero dubiret Agricola, quamvis Sencx, quxrenti cui ferat, refpondere; Diis immortalibus, qui me non accipere mudo haec a majoribus voluerunr, led etiam pofteris prodere. Cato Major, Cap. 7. Tcoutx 3, co Ke/ToGsRi, tyco iiyyySpccu, iQ>] 0 ot» t5 ytca^yicti 01 •aTxvv [/.xx.oc^oi Siwxv^) xitiyioSp,. 'EoiKi yx<> v\ Sdn/xiRax xvteivx* ocpcx ti 1iSoTrx^ttx r*c, (c oix.a cupcxtun eif -re $wjx£% 0<rx x\8$j. argomjxt{. Xenoph. Oncov. Cap. 5. LONDON: Printed for Tho. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over againft St.DunJIan'z Church in FleetJlreet. M DCC XXVI.
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